Exchange point requests for IPv6 address space

[Richard Jimmerson]

At RIPE 39 last week the issue of IPv6 address assignments
to Internet Exchange Points was discussed.

During the RIPE meeting an Internet Exchange Point was defined 
as follows:

3 or more ASes and 3 or more separate entities attached to a 
LAN (the same infrastructure) for the purpose of peering and 
more are welcome to join.

There was consensus to assign a /64 to an isolated Exchange 
Point.  It was further suggested to assign a /48 to a group 
of inter-connected Exchange Points.  The RIPE NCC has recently
proposed to their mailing list to proceed with assignments for
Exchange Points using these guidelines. 

The ARIN region currently has a policy in place for exchange 
points that applies to IPv4.  This policy can be found under 
the heading "Micro-allocations" at
http://www.arin.net/regserv/initial-isp.html

Should ARIN consider expanding this policy to apply to IPv6?
Your feedback is requested.

Richard Jimmerson
Director of Operations
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)